Word: mtv
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...MTV and literature? The two seem about as compatible as Apple Jacks and peanut butter. But with the channel's first fiction contest, MTV has managed to find a novel that sets the demands of pop culture alongside the standards of literary fiction and emerges as a unified whole. The winner of the contest, Robin Troy '96 delivers Floating, a novel that is young and entertaining enough to be MTV, yet mature and developed enough to be thought-provoking and powerful...
Floating is touching in a serious and real sort of way, dealing with difficulties that, though perhaps less dramatically, can be extended to a wide range of experience. The novel is imaginative, insightful, and quite well written. MTV and literature? They still sound like Apple Jacks and peanut butter, but if Floating is any indication, MTV Books may have a future in fiction after...
...Marky Mark gross you out at the MTV video awards...
...recent party held in honor of Oprah Winfrey in downtown Manhattan, both Toni Morrison and Cindy Crawford were in attendance. The gathering, held at a restaurant where it's difficult to get a reservation unless you call long in advance or are a recent recipient of an MTV Video Music Award, was a starry one. Mariah Carey. Barbara Walters. Maya Angelou. They were all there. Oprah worked the room, shining attention on each guest briefly but brightly, a passing Lexus with her high beams on. The occasion was a celebration of Oprah's star turn in the new film Beloved...
...almost as if MADONNA can't leave the stage until someone has been offended. Her appearance on the MTV Awards as Shiva, a Hindu god, who then transmogrified into a different, more booty-shaking type of avatar altogether, vexed some Hindus. The World Vaishnava Association said her makeup, reminiscent of Hindu facial markings that indicate purity and devotion, did not go too well with her diaphanous top and suggestive dancing. Luckily, Hindus don't believe in fatwas. And besides, other Hindu groups were more complimentary, saying her pronunciation of chants was improving and she should be commended for her interest...